A legismertebb 20. századi és 21. századi zeneszerzők a következők.
A magyar zeneszerzőket lásd még a Magyar zeneszerzők listájában is!
A
Marcello Abbado (1926) Keiko Abel (1937) Michael Abels (1962) Muhal Richard Abrams (1930–2017) Abras (1975) José Antonio Abreu (1939–2018) Michael Adamis (1929) John Coolidge Adams (1947) John Luther Adams (1953) Rosalie Adams (1927) Murray Adaskin (1906–2002) Mark Adderley (1960) Richard Addinsell (1904–1977) Thomas Adès (1971) Samuel Adler (1928) Ernani Aguiar (1950) Miguel de Aguila (1957) Ahn Eak-tae (1906–1965) Kalevi Aho (1949) Franco Alfano (1875–1954) Hugo Alfvén (1872–1960) Frangis Ali-Sade (1947) Juan Allende-Blin (1928) Carmelo Alonso (1929) Maryanne Amacher (1943) Charles Amirkhanian (1945) David Amram (1930) Gilbert Amy (1936) Beth Anderson (1950) Julian Anderson (1967) Louis Andriessen (1939) Jurriaan Andriessen (1925–1996) Caroline Ansink George Antheil (1900–1959) Theódorosz Andoníu (1935–2018) Georges Aperghis (1945) Denis ApIvor (1916–2004) Dominick Argento (1927–2019) Richard Arnell (1917) Malcolm Arnold (1921) Girolamo Arrigo (1930) Alexander Arutjunjan (1920) Robert Ashley (1930) Daniel Asia (1953) André Asriel (1922) José Vicente Asuar (1933) Kenneth Atchley (1954) Kurt Atterberg (1887–1974) Georges Auric (1899–1983) Larry Austin (1930) Tzvi Avni (1927)
B
Milton Babbitt (1916) Nicolas Bacri (1961) Nikolai Badinski (1937) Walter Baer (1928) Simon Bainbridge (1952–2021) Leonardo Balada (1933) Osvaldas Balakauskas (1937) Claude Ballif (1924) Alain Bancquart (1934) Granville Bantock (1968–1946) Helmut Barbe (1927) Samuel Barber (1910–1981) Vytautas Barkauskas (1931) Clarence Barlow (ca. 1945) Jean Barraqué (1928–1973) Natasha Barrett (1972) Gerald Barry (1952) Bartók Béla (1881–1945) Domenico Bartolucci (1917–2013) Leonid Bashmakov (1927) Jürg Baur (1918) Arnold Bax (1883–1953) François Bayle (1932) Amy Beach (1867–1944) Sally Beamish (1956) Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt (1925) Günter Becker (1924) David Bedford (1937) Jack Beeson (1921) David Behrman (1937) Derek Bell (1935–2002) Barbara Benary (1946) Juraj Benes (1940) Xavier Benguerel (1931) George Benjamin (1960) Heinz Benker (1921) Richard Rodney Bennett (1936) Pascal Bentoiu (1927) Alban Berg (1885–1935) Arthur Berger (1912–2003) Roman Berger (1930) Wilhelm Peterson Berger (1867–1942) Erik Bergman (1911) Luciano Berio (1925–2003) Lennox Berkeley (1903–1989) Bart Berman (1938) Elmer Bernstein (1922–2004) Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) Mario Bertoncini (1932–2019) Danilo Bestagno Frank Michael Beyer (1928) Antonio Bibalo (1922) Gilbert Biberian (1944) Ronald Binge (1910–1969) Jörg Birkenkötter (1963) Harrison Birtwistle (1934) Marcel Bitsch (1921) Staffan Björklund (1944) Easley Blackwood (1933) David Blake (1936) Pavel Blatny´ (1931) Arthur Bliss (1891–1975) Marc Blitzstein (1905–1964) Augustyn Bloch (1929) Ernest Bloch (1880–1959) Sylvie Bodorová (1954) Konrad Boehmer (1941) Philippe Boesmans (1936) Anatoli Bogatyrjow (1913) Rostislaw Boiko (1931) Rob du Bois (1934) Michèle Bokanowski (1943) William Bolcom (1938) Jacques Bondon (1927) Mauro Bortolotti (1926) Axel Borup-Jørgensen (1924) Hans-Jürgen von Bose (1953) Christian Bouchard (1968) Ned Bouhalassa (1962) Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979) Pierre Boulez (1925–2016) Denys Bouliane (1955) Paul Bowles (1910–1999) Eugène Bozza (1905–1991) Bozay Attila (1939–1999) Daniel Börtz (1943) Joly Braga Santos (1924–1988) Glenn Branca (1948) Theo Brandmüller (1948) Henry Brant (1913)* Henning Brauel (1940) Peter Michael Braun (1936) Anthony Braxton (1945) Uri Brener (1974) Havergal Brian (1876–1972) Frank Bridge (1879–1941) Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) Max Brod (1884–1968) Leo Brouwer (1939) Earle Brown (1926–2002) Elisabetta Brusa (1954) Joanna Bruzdowicz (1943) Gavin Bryars (1943) Gunnar Bucht (1927) Geoffrey Burgon (1941) Willy Burkhard (1900–1955) Diana Burrell (1948) Francis Burt (1926) Alan Bush (1900–1995) Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni (1866–1924) Sylvano Bussotti (1931) George Butterworth (1885–1916)
C
John Cage (1912–1992) Herbert Callhoff (1933) Christian Calon (1950) Gérard Calvi (1922–2015) Charles Camilleri (1931) Bruno Canino (1935) Philipp Cannon (1929) Joseph Canteloube (1879–1957) Daniel Capelletti (1958) André Caplet (1878–1925) Cornelius Cardew (1936–1981) Wendy Carlos (1939) John Alden Carpenter (1876–1951) Michael Carnes (1950) Edwin Carr (1926–2003) Elliott Carter (1908–2012) Tristram Cary (1925) John Casken (1949) Alfredo Casella (1883–1847) Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968) Jacques Castérède (1926) Washington Castro (1909) Josef Ceremuga (1930) Friedrich Cerha (1926) Jordi Cervelló (1935) Paraschkew Chadschiew (1912) Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944) John Barnes Chance (1932–1972) Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956) Jacques Charpentier (1933–2017) Rhys Chatham (1952) Stephen Chatman (1950) Carlos Chávez (1899–1978) Charles Chaynes (1925–2016) Mary Ellen Childs (1957) Unsuk Chin (1961) Michel Chion (1947) Alexander Cholminow (1925) Wen-chung Chou (1923) Dimitâr Christov (1933) Heinz Chur (1948) Leonardo Ciampa (1971) Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875–1911) Francesco Cilea (1866–1950) Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979) Eric Coates (1886–1957) Gloria Coates (1938) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) Cecil Coles (1888–1918) Nicolas Collins (1954) Liviu Comes (1918) Justin Connolly (1933) Marius Constant (1925–2004) Edgar Cook (1880–1953) Arnold Cooke (1906) Aaron Copland (1900–1990) Frank Corcoran (1944) John Corigliano (1938) Andre Cormier (1969) Vladimir Cosma (1940) Henry Cowell (1897–1965) Edward Cowie (1943) Ruth Crawford-Seeger (1901–1953) Paul Creston (1906–1985) Gordon Crosse (1937) George Crumb (1929) Carlos Cruz de Castro (1941) Alvin Curran (1938) Curtis Curtis-Smith (1941) Henryk Czyz (1923–2003)
D
Robert Daigneault (1940) Martin Dalby (1942) Luigi Dallapiccola (1904–1975) Jean-Michel Damase (1928) Matteo D'Amico (1955) Ikuma Dan (1924) Liviu Dandara (1933) Richard Danielpour (1956) John Dankworth (1927) Nguyen-Thien Dao (1940) Ram Da-Oz (1929) Yves Daoust (1946) Ivor Darreg (1917–1994) Darvas Gábor (1911–1985) Michael Daugherty (1954) Shaun Davey (kb. 1950) Johann Nepomuk David (1895–1977) Mario Davidovsky (1934) Hugh Davies (1943) Peter Maxwell Davies (1934) Victor Davies (1939) Walford Davies (1869–1944) Anthony Davis (1951) Carl Davis (1936) Raymond Deane (1953) Claude Debussy (1862–1918) Richard deCosta (1971) Michel Decoust (1936) Decsényi János (1927) Igor Dekleva (1933) José Luis de Delás (1928) Frederick Delius (1862–1934) Norman Del Mar (1919) Ratko Delorko (1959) David Del Tredici (1937) Jacques Demierre (1954) Michael Denhoff (1955) Jean-François Denis (1960) Edison Denisov (1929–1996) Gion Antoni Derungs (1935) Martin Derungs (1943) Pavle Despalj (1934) Dejan Despic (1930) Frédéric Devreese (1929–2020) Rafaël D'Haene (1943) Francis Dhomont (1926) David Diamond (1915) Emma Lou Diemer (1927–2024) Jan van Dijk (1918) Péter Louis van Dijk (1953) Oscar van Dillen (1958) James Dillon (1950) Bojidar Dimov (1935) Violeta Dinescu (1953) Paul Dirmeikis (1954) Paul-Heinz Dittrich (1930) Lucia Dlugoszewski (1931) Charles Dodge (1945) Stephen Dodgson (1924) Dohnányi Ernő (1877–1960) Paul Dolden (1956) Hanus<caron> Domansky´ (1944) Daniel Dorff (1956) Joseph Dorfman (1940) Arne Dørumsgaard (1921) Roy Douglas (1907) John Downey (1927) Friedhelm Döhl (1936) Stefan Dragostinov (1948) Arnold Dreyblatt (1953) George Dreyfus (1928) Felix Draeseke (1835–1913) Arnold Dreyblatt (1953) Madeleine Dring (1923–1977) John W Duarte (1919–2004) Dubrovay László (1943) William Duckworth (1943) Hugues Dufourt (1943-) francia Louis Dufort (1970) Paul Dukas (1865–1935) Tan Tun (1957) Iancu Dumitrescu (1942) Hubert Du Plessis (1922) Marcel Dupré (1886–1971) Joël-François Durand (1954) Durkó Zsolt (1934–1997) Maurice Duruflé (1902–1986) Pascal Dusapin (1955) Henri Dutilleux (1916) Andrzej Dutkiewicz (1942) Peter Dülken (1954) Roland Dyens (1955) Arié Dzierlatka (1933) Maria Dziewulska (1909)
E
Ross Edwards (1943) Henry Eichheim (1870–1942) Gottfried von Einem (1918–1996) Ludovico Einaudi (1955) Hanns Eisler (1898–1962) Edward Elgar (1857–1934) JAK Ellis George Enescu (1881–1955) Robert Erickson (1917–1997) Ulvi Cemal Erkin (1906–1972) Alvin Etler (1913–1973) Pierre Even (1946) David Earl (1951) Michael Easton (1954–2004) John Charles Eaton (1935) Petr Eben (1929) Helmut Eder (1916) Lars Edlund (1922) George Edwards (1943) Ross Edwards (1943) Moritz Eggert (1965) Dietrich Eichmann (1966) Karólina Eiriksdóttir (1951) Will Eisma (1929) Jan Ekier (1913–2014) Halim El-Dabh (1921–2017) Brian Elias (1948) Jean-Claude Éloy (1938) Huib Emmer (1951) František Emmert (1940) Hans-Ulrich Engelmann (1921) Peter Eötvös (1944) Donald Erb (1927) Heimo Erbse (1924) Susanne Erding (1955) Dietrich Erdmann (1917) Hans-Ola Ericsson (1958) Iván Eröd (1936) Andrej Eschpaj (1925) Pierre Even (1946)
F
Rolande Falcinelli (1920) Juri Falik (1936) Manuel de Falla (1876–1946) Leos Faltus (1937) Carlos Fariñas (1934–2002) David Farquhar (1928) Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Reinhard Febel (1952) Ivan Fedele (1953) Richard Felciano (1930) Jindrich Feld (1925-2007) Jan Felderhof (1907) Barbara Monk Feldman (1953) Morton Feldman (1926–1987) Václav Felix (1928) Vittorio Fellegara (1927) Eric Fenby (1906–1997) Victor Fenigstein (1924) Sergio Fernández (1946) Brian Ferneyhough (1943) Luc Ferrari (1929) Lorenzo Ferrero (1951) Andreas Fervers (1957) George Fiala (1922) Petr Fiala (1943) Joshua Fineberg (1969) Siegfried Fink (1928) Reinhold Finkbeiner (1929) Michael Finnissy (1946) Gerald Finzi (1901–1956) Ertuğrul Oğuz Fırat (1922) Jelena Firssowa (1950) David First (1953) Jan Frank Fischer (1921) Lubos Fiser (1935) Alfred Fisher (1942) Graham Fitkin (1963) Joseph Fitzmartin (1943) Ernst Helmuth Flammer (1949) Kjell Flem (1943) Antony le Fleming Reinhard David Flender (1953) Grant Fletcher (1913–2002) Philip Flood (1964) Marius Flothuis (1914–2001) Carlisle Floyd (1926) Urs Joseph Flury (1941) Henry Flynt (1940) Daniel Charles Foley (1952) Jacqueline Fontyn (1930) Andrew Ford (1957) Silvio Foretic´ (1940) Roland Forsberg (1939) John Väinö Forsman (1924) Alfons Forstpointner (1929) Malcolm Forsyth (1936) Lukas Foss (1922) Patrice Fouillaud (1949) Jennifer Fowler (1939) Luis Fraca (1929) Jean Françaix (1912–1997) Carlo Franci (1927) Benjamin Frankel (1906–1973) Wim Franken (1922) Joep Franssens (1955) Olov Franzén (1946) Howard Frazin Henning Frederichs (1936–2003) Lafayette Fredrikson (1970) Harry Freedman (1922) Jürg Frey (1953) Kres<caron>imir Fribec (1908) Peter Racine Fricker (1920–1990) Ruben Fridolfson (1933) Rikhardur H. Fridriksson (1960) Alexej Fried (1922) Johannes Fritsch (1941) Kenneth Fuchs (1956) Julius Fučík (1872–1916) Keiko Fujiie (1963) Masanori Fujita (1946) Kazuo Fukushima (1930) Ellen Fullman (1957) Arthur Furer (1924) Beat Furrer (1954) Paul Walter Fürst (1926)
G
Nodar Gabunija (1933–2000) Kenneth Gaburo (1926–1993) Clemens Gadenstätter (1966) Bogdan Gagic´ (1931) Alain Gagnon (1938) Bernhard Gál (1971) Carlo Galante (1959) Kyle Gann (1955) Fernando García Arancibia (1930) Gerald Garcia (1949) Antón García Abril (1933) Manuel García Morante (1937) Sigurdur Egill Gardarsson (1941) Mary Gardiner (1932) John Gardner (1917–2011) Gárdonyi Zsolt (1946) Peter Garland (1952) Rifaat Garrana (1924) Celso Garrido Lecca (1926) Mario Garuti (1957) Maria Isabel Garvia (1959) Giorgio Gaslini (1929) Luis Gásser (1951) Ulrich Gasser (1950)